Life Has A Higher End, Than To

Do Anything Rather Than Give Yourself To Reverie.

Difficulties Are Meant To Rouse, Not Discourage. The Human Spirit Is To Grow Strong By Conflict.

The Cry Has Been That When War Is Declared, All Opposition Should Therefore Be Hushed. A Sentiment More Unworthy Of A Free Country Could Hardly Be Propagated. If The Doctrine Be Admitted, Rulers Have Only To Declare War And They Are Screened At Once From Scrutiny. . . . In War, Then, As In Peace, Assert The Freedom Of Speech And Of The Press. Cling To This As The Bulwark Of All Our Rights And Privileges.

O God, Animate Us To Cheerfulness! May We Have A Joyful Sense Of Our Blessings, Learn To Look On The Bright Circumstances Of Our Lot, And Maintain A Perpetual Contentedness

It Is Chiefly Through Books That We Enjoy Intercourse With Superior Minds. In The Best Books, Great Men Talk To Us, Give Us Their Most Precious Thoughts, And Pour Their Souls Into Ours.